Ernie Malik, the on-set publicist for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, took a look behind the scenes of the new flick and came up with a book of fascinating facts and images. It’s available on Amazon.com, but in the meantime, he gave Filmazing an exclusive peek between the pages.

1. THE BOOKS – The seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia series are now sold and marketed in a different order than they were published:

PUBLISHED ORDER:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magician's Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)

CURRENT ORDER:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

2.THE LOCATIONS – Prince Caspian filmed in four different countries (New Zealand, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia) on both hemispheres; however, American location-scout James Crowley and his team scouted 20 countries in both hemispheres for the best look for the second movie. Those countries were China, the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Switzerland and Croatia.

3. THE STUDIO – For the first movie, the filmmakers used three different interiors in New Zealand (Henderson Studios, Hobsonville Airbase, Kelley Park Equestrian Center) to build almost five dozen sets for the film. For the second movie, Prince Caspian, the legendary Czech studios Barrandov in Prague housed almost two dozen sets designed by Roger Ford. Barrandov Studios’ legend dates back to 1931 and includes the on-screen debuts of such modern cinema giants as Milos Forman, Jirí Menzel and the late Ján Kadár. Its infamous history also includes 82 films made there between 1939-45 under the control of Hitler’s notorious Third Reich propagandists, after the Nazis invaded Prague just before WWII. Many of those films were produced on Stages 6 and 7 in Novy Halo (New Hall, built by Hitler for just this purpose), where Ford erected the magnificent Aslan's How set (Stage 6) and King Miraz's Great Hall (Stage 7).

4. THE DAREDEVILS – Actors William Moseley and Skandar Keynes, back as Pevensie boys Peter and Edmund (respectively), spent much of their downtime acting like stuntmen would...executing feats of daring like diving off a bridge from the world’s third highest bungee jump at A.J. Hackett’s, deep in wine country outside of Queenstown, New Zealand (a 440 foot freefall). The pair also fell over 600 feet from Auckland’s Sky Tower, the highest structure in the Southern Hemisphere (attached to a wire, of course, that parallels the Space Needle-like building).

5. THE MAKEUP – Oscar-winning makeup artist Howard Berger's team of special character and prosthetic craftspeople applied 4600 makeups by the end of the 136-day shoot, which Berger claims to be an industry record.

6. THE COSTUMES – Isis Mussenden's costume department (which numbered 80 people) manufactured the following items for the production:

Total cast outfits built – 262

Total number of items built for main cast – 1042

Individual items made for the Telmarine army (including Miraz and his Lords) – 3722 (includes helmets, masks, brigandines, underbrigs, shirts, pants, boots, gloves and grieves)

Number of metal rivets per brigandine – 2184 (equated to nearly 1 million for the entire army)

7. THE CASTLE SET – The Roger Ford design, a 20,000 square-foot, six-story high edifice erected on Barrandov's backlot under the eye of supervising art director Frank Walsh and construction coordinator Malcolm Roberts, took a team of 200 carpenters, plasterers and painters 15 weeks to build. (Onscreen, the castle appears three times as high, towering over a thousand-foot chasm, through the magic of visual effects and two miniature duplicate sets built in New Zealand – one 1/24 scale, the other 1/100 scale)

8. CODE NAME: TOASTIE – Why did the filmmakers dub their screenplay "Toastie" (to protect the script's identity from leaking and falling into the hands of folks not associated with the project)? The first movie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was given the alias of "100 Year Winter" in reference to Jadis the White Witch's frozen spell over Narnia. For the new movie, director Andrew Adamson came up with the idea of "Toastie," named for the Kiwi grilled cheese sandwich, a staple on the snack table while filming in his homeland of New Zealand.

9. THE VFX – Every time a genre film is produced (like the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars trilogies or the Harry Potter franchise), fans like to know how many visual effects shots the film will have. While Lion/Witch finished with 1600 (after an estimate of 800 when filming began), Prince Caspian started with that same number – 1600. The final count before the movie hit screens – 1601!

10. FERN FOREST – The site of the first meeting early in the film between Caspian and Reepicheep the Mouse (a CGI character voiced by British comic Eddie Izzard) took place in a dense forest some 50 km from Prague in the Czech Republic...where not a single fern plant existed! The solution, according to greensman Robbie Penny, was to import the plants from various European countries (especially Belgium), bringing in some 17,000 potted ferns from all over the continent.